PowerShell and DevOps, Microsoft Sessions

W02 Configuring Everything with Desired State Configuration (DSC) v3

August 13th, 2025

8:00am - 9:15am

Jason Helmick

Program Manager, PowerShell team

Microsoft

PowerShell Desired State Configuration (PSDSC) was first introduced Windows PowerShell 4.0. Since then, not much has changed. Until now!

Do you use PSDSC in your environment today? Are you curious where we are going with DSC v3?

The new version of Desired State Configuration (DSC) is an evolution in cloud-native configuration management for cross-platform environments.

Join Jason Helmick, a PM on the PowerShell team, to learn how to get started with this new platform for configuration.

You will learn:

  • How DSC takes configuration management in a new direction and why you should care
  • How to create configuration files that define how your environment should look
  • How to invoke DSC resources directly to perform specific actions
  • How to write your own resources with the support of the Resource Development Kit (RDK)